Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. He flunks English and will have to trade basketball camp for summer school. Even worse, his mother has hired the world's biggest nerdball and most annoying genius, Millicent Min, to tutor him.

All of Bobby Ellis-Chan's problems in life can be summed up in one word: GIRLS.
There's his sister Casey, who has a weird obsession with Bobby's goldfish, Rover.
There's Jillian Zarr, who gets mad every time a boy even looks at her.
Most of all, there's Holly Harper, Bobby's ex-best friend. Who is now, for some reason, Jillian's best friend. She used to like frogs and rolling down the hill; now she wears dresses and straightens her hair. Holly's running against Bobby for Student Council representative. She knows all his secrets -- and she just might spill.
It's Bobby vs....

Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former pro-football player, say that the two of them are nothing alike, but he finally summons the courage to talk about it after his public asthma attack proves how right his father is. Illustrations.